Beef Industry News and Views
BEEF producers who sell their meat directly to consumers can boost their profit margins by up to eight per cent by following the step-by-step instructions in a new guide, says EBLEX. The Simply Delicious New Cuts publication profiles a range of beef cuts which are already doing well in the food service sector and increasing [...]
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THE two problems facing beef producers in the coming decades have the same answer – greater efficiency. That the message from Duncan Pullar, research and development manager at the Agricultural and Horticultural Development Board (AHDB). He examined the likely impact of the global requirement to reduce the carbon footprint of the cattle business yet meet [...]
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DESPITE THE controversy over the imposition of EID onto its sheep industry, Scotland could still voluntarily lead the rest of Europe on EID for cattle. The claim came from QMS chairman, Jim McLaren, following a tagging demonstration involving high frequency cattle tags. He recommended that the Scottish cattle industry be on the ‘front foot’ on [...]
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THE Government’s “serious concerns” about the possible impact that a trade agreement with the Mercosur group of South American countries might have on the Irish beef sector have been conveyed to the European Commission. Agriculture Minister Brendan Smith outlined the concerns when he met EU Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht in Brussels earlier this week. [...]
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SCOTTISH BEEF specialists are being challenged to show producers how to increase their profit margins at the forthcoming Winter Beef management event at Balbuthie farm, Fife on October 6, 2011. The event, to be opened by CabSec, Richard Lochhead, and organised by the Scottish Beef Cattle Association in association with QMS, SAC, and the Moredun [...]
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Hugh Tunney: THE BUSINESSMAN Hugh Tunney, who has died aged 83, rose from humble beginnings to live at Classiebawn Castle built by Lord Mount Temple at Mullaghmore, Co Sligo, and later the home of Earl Mountbatten. “You cannot be a king without a castle,” he told a business associate when he leased Classiebawn from the [...]
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Oxford dairy farmer harvested DNA from champion Holstein in 2000 Mark Rueth’s Holstein cow Paradise had just been crowned supreme champion of the World Dairy Expo in Madison in 2000 when a biotechnology company salesman approached him ringside and offered a cut-rate deal to clone Paradise so she could “live forever,” and make his farm [...]
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MILK and beef from animals born of cloned cows has found its way onto the British food chain. The Food Standards Agency say the two bulls, descended from a cloned cow, had been slaughtered and “will have been eaten” but stressed there was no risk to public health. EMILY BUCHANAN took to the streets of [...]
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The UK National Farmers Union, NFU and Irish Farmers’ Association have expressed concern about the reopening trade talks with the Mercosur group of South American countries because of the impact it could have on farmers. NFU president Peter Kendall // // The president of the NFU Peter Kendall and the president of the IFA John [...]
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In brief: JBS decided to buy American McElhaney Feedyard, Brazilians will try to monopolize the market through acquisitions of small companies. Farmers mergers and acquisitions at the beginning of a new decade become emblematic in the background of a partial return of the world economy to a barter economy. Hi-tech era is cracked and companies [...]
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